[Fearless88]

Hi there everyone.
I bought aftermarket door ambient lights on aliexpress.
Finally passed the lights to my friend to go on the car. We got an strange issue ,I wonder if anyone had similar problem.
When we change the lights through idrive settings to comfort mode lights suppose to go to orange but they go blue and when we change it to sports mode it goes orange, I could have easily keep it like that but it looks so weirdly with the center console after market ambient light as it is working as it should. Orange on the comfort, blue on the sports. What are we doing wrong can anyone help.
Thank you

[Fearless88]

As the pics

[Squibby1996]

Can the plug be turned upside down?

[Fearless88]

Originally Posted by Squibby1996

Can the plug be turned upside down?

2 plugs one with 2 pin the other one with 3 pin

[Squibby1996]

You got a picture of what they look like? One will be the negative then a live to feed the orange or blue so need to somehow swap them around

[Fearless88]

Originally Posted by Squibby1996

You got a picture of what they look like? One will be the negative then a live to feed the orange or blue so need to somehow swap them around

Like that

[eff32fl]

Are the door lights and radio trim from 2 different kits or the same kit? All of the 3 pin plugs have a negative and a positive for each of the 2 colors so I don't believe they will work reversed. If they're from 2 different kits, the orange and blue LEDs are manufactured swapped by design. So on the doors it is set up to be sport is blue and classic is orange and the radio trim is set up to be sport is orange and classic is blue. If this is the case there's not much you can do other than making sure you get both from the same kit.

Edit: clarified a sentence

[Fearless88]

Originally Posted by eff32fl

Are the door lights and radio trim from 2 different kits or the same kit? All of the 3 pin plugs have a negative and a positive for each of the 2 colors so I don't believe they will work reversed. If they're from 2 different kits, the orange and blue LEDs are manufactured swapped by design. So on the doors orange is set up to be sport is blue and classic is orange and the radio trim is set up to be sport is orange and classic is blue. If this is the case there's not much you can do other than making sure you get both from the same kit.

Yeh they're actually from different sellers. I bought the first one few months ago and put it on all worked fine, classic is orange and sport is blue. But the one installed on the doors doing the opposite.
There are 2 plugs one with 2 pins the other one with 3 pins.

[Squibby1996]

Originally Posted by eff32fl

Are the door lights and radio trim from 2 different kits or the same kit? All of the 3 pin plugs have a negative and a positive for each of the 2 colors so I don't believe they will work reversed. If they're from 2 different kits, the orange and blue LEDs are manufactured swapped by design. So on the doors orange is set up to be sport is blue and classic is orange and the radio trim is set up to be sport is orange and classic is blue. If this is the case there's not much you can do other than making sure you get both from the same kit.

Yeah didn't realise this, was going by my f36 has one plug with 3 pins, pretty sure the middle pin is negative then a life feeding each colour but this is different

[eff32fl]

Originally Posted by Squibby1996

Yeah didn't realise this, was going by my f36 has one plug with 3 pins, pretty sure the middle pin is negative then a life feeding each colour but this is different

Yeah on the 3 pin connector 1 is negative and there's 2 pins that are positive or for each color just not sure which is which.

The best advice I can give since the doors are harder to replace contact the vendor you purchased your door lighting kit from and see if they offer a radio trim. If they do the colors should match but I would mention which color is which classic/sport for your doors so the vendor can verify their radio trim is the same.

If the door lighting vendor doesn't carry a radio trim, you may have to buy a whole new kit with both. Or contact other radio trim vendors and ask them how their colors are configured classic/sport before purchasing.

[Squibby1996]

Or remove the radio trim and swap the wiring over on that so it's reversed

[eff32fl]

Originally Posted by Squibby1996

Or remove the radio trim and swap the wiring over on that so it's reversed

Indeed that would work. Repin the 3 pin connectors going to each of the 2 LED modules and swap the positive wires. Good call.

[Squibby1996]

Originally Posted by eff32fl

Indeed that would work. Repin the 3 pin connectors going to each of the 2 LED modules and swap the positive wires. Good call.

Think he's got the China copy one which isn't an led either side it's one plug 3 wires so would be easier too

[eff32fl]

Originally Posted by Squibby1996

Think he's got the China copy one which isn't an led either side it's one plug 3 wires so would be easier too

Ahh yeah even easier, just do the swapping on the cable that plugs into the dash.

[Fearless88]

All sorted now. Thanks for helping out guys.

[Squibby1996]

Originally Posted by Fearless88

All sorted now. Thanks for helping out guys.

How did you fix it ?

[Fearless88]

Originally Posted by Squibby1996

How did you fix it ?

I took it to my mate who is a mechanic, was embarrassed to waste his time with something silly like that but after few playing around he told me he swapped the connections and it worked.
To be honest I didn't even asked him the details.
Not very helpful I know but at least all sorted, appreciated for the responses here.

[eff32fl]

Originally Posted by Fearless88

I took it to my mate who is a mechanic, was embarrassed to waste his time with something silly like that but after few playing around he told me he swapped the connections and it worked.
To be honest I didn't even asked him the details.
Not very helpful I know but at least all sorted, appreciated for the responses here.

Awesome glad the swapping wires worked!